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Everyone wants the best for themselves and their families. When you look to the future, you don’t have to hope for their happiness and wellness. Use these smart tips for your family’s health this year and you’ll ensure that they’re getting the most out of life.

Your family’s wellbeing depends on more than getting health insurance and going for annual check-ups with your preferred physician. These strategies start healthy habits that turn into better choices, so every day is a chance to make this your best year yet.

1. Spend Time Outdoors

After staying cooped up inside during 2020, you’re probably ready to get back outdoors. Take your family with you for local nature walks or backyard games. The fresh air and sunshine improves your mood and gives you a few natural benefits.

Sunshine provides natural vitamin D, which reduces your risk of stroke by preventing heart disease. Your body also becomes stronger with more exercise. As long as you don’t lie around outside or get sunburnt, you’ll move more and improve your family’s health.

2. Make a Breakfast Routine

Kids know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but no one explains why. When people eat whole foods and not processed junk food, they prevent long-term weight gain and avoid the adverse health effects of obesity.

Make breakfast fun this year by starting a new routine. Try a new meal every week and ask your kids to help you make it. Once they find something they love, eating breakfast won’t seem like a chore.

3. Remember Your Dental Health

Dental health is just as important as any other aspect of your physical health. Between trips to the dentist, prevent enamel wear and tear. Drinking coffee or acidic beverages stains your enamel and wears it down. Enamel absorbs tannins because it’s porous, resulting in stains and heightened sensitivity.

Encourage your family members to drink beverages through straws and brush their teeth regularly to protect their dental health between professional cleanings.

4. Ditch the Sugar

Maybe you already limit how often your kids eat sugar. That’s a great start to preventing health issues, but what about added sugars? Manufacturers put added sugars into food and categorize them differently on nutrition labels, slipping them past watchful consumers to appeal to their sugar-driven taste buds.

Double-check the nutrition labels in your household. You’ll find added sugars in foods you don’t expect. You might buy yogurt for the probiotics, but some brands contain six teaspoons of sugar per serving. These hidden sugars dig into your teeth and spike your blood sugar. Get products labelled “no added sugar” to avoid a host of health complications.

5. Get Your Vaccinations

Kids need regular vaccinations during their first five to six years of life, then a few more when they get older. Your family’s pediatrician can explain the recommended vaccination timeline and how it prevents diseases like diphtheria and pertussis.

While you’re scheduling appointments, don’t forget about flu shots. One of the smart tips for your family’s health this year is getting the annual flu shot to avoid hospitalisation if or when you or your kids become sick.

6. Start an Exercise Challenge

Telling your children to go outside and run around doesn’t sound as fun to today’s generation. They have a world of entertainment at their fingertips with video games, phones and computers. Instead, get the entire family involved by starting an exercise challenge.

Think of a routine exercise your family would enjoy. Maybe you can go for evening bike rides together or play hopscotch on the driveway. Whoever completes the challenge of exercising a specified number of times each week can win stickers or a new book from their favourite author.

Daily exercise strengthens muscles and improves heart function – two things people can benefit from at any age.

7. Improve Your Communication

If kids and parents feel like they can’t talk to each other, those issues cause tension and stress. Create a safe environment for communication by improving how you talk to each other with tips like:

  •       Listening without interrupting
  •       Refraining from immediate judgements
  •       Avoiding emotionally charged language

When people live with long-term stress, it contributes to serious health conditions such as insomnia and digestive problems. Everyone should feel safe and welcome at home, especially when they want to speak up or ask questions.

8. Grow Indoor Plants

Health tips don’t always involve eating or exercising. Sometimes growing indoor plants is enough to protect your family. Picking the right plants makes your home a healthy place for everyone to live. Look into growing plants that absorb impurities, like garden mums and spider plants.

These plants reduce allergens and bacteria in your home. They’ll make your indoor air safer to breathe, which could make all the difference during the height of flu season.

Transform Your Family’s Health This Year

Your family will enjoy the coming year if you use these smart tips to make life better for everyone. Get active, eat better and start healthy habits. You’ll teach your children to continue these things when they leave the nest and ensure their wellbeing until then.


What healthy habits are you going to try and implement this year? Tell us in the comments below.

  • Love this list. I already do quite a few of them. I do the 16:8 diet tho, so no eating between 6pm and 10am


  • After reading his article it really inspired me to expand our garden to included a vegepod. I can not wait for it to arrive! I also really love the idea of an exercise challenge. My husband and I can be quite competitive so I imagine it will work well for us. My children get heaps of exercise through their sports. I also started the breakfast routine making delicious soy banana smoothies packed with ginger and a little honey….so delicious!


  • This year with both kids in school, im definitely making it more a priority to get my health in order to be better able to look after my family too. I think being a good role model to my kids is so important as they feed off what you show them. We are definitely making more of an effort to spend time outdoors to get that vitamin D and protect our eye health


  • I’m proud to say that I have a lot of those points listed above already! I definitely have an indoor plant fetish and I’ve always been a big one for getting out in nature. Even if it’s just walking the dogs in our beautiful parkland. We do struggle with dental health though. Even though my kids are older, I am still struggling to get them into a routine with that…


  • Personally I love the idea of adding bone broths to weekly meal plans. It can be economical and the benefits have been shown to be extraordinary for boosting our immune systems. I also keep a bottle of olive leaf extract in the refrigerator and at the first signs of feeling unwell we take a spoonful to boost our immune system.


  • There are some great tips there. getting out in the fresh air exploring is so easy and great fun for all. We have recently started going to the pool each morning and we feel so much better for it. The grandkids have come along in the holidays and I can see them keeping it up.


  • As a family we love being outdoors. I especially love being in the garden surrounded by plants, fruits trees and the veggie patch. I have created a beautiful inside oasis with plants and love them all. It’s so true when they say the simple things in life are most often the best. A great day out for me is visiting the nursery section in Bunnings or our local plant store…..sad but true!


  • I like all these tips and agree that spending time outdoors is a major factor in staying healthy. Most people are encouraged to stay out of the sun and as a result are deficient in vitamin D which is very much needed to maintain a healthy immune system. It’s important to spend time in the sun either early morning or late in the day when the UV factor is less extreme and of course slip, slop, slap.


  • A few ticks here which is reassuring! Getting outside, no matter the weather, is great. Stomp in the puddles, sing into the wind and crunch the autumn leaves! Fresh air, it’s so good for you… so try and stay away from busy roads when outside!

    Indoor plants is also something I’m loving. I wish I had more room for more… although I killed my cactus recently. Sigh.


  • I think being outdoors is an underrated aspect of health and wellbeing. I have suffered with sleep issues most my life and some mornings I struggle to wake up no matter how much I have slept. What has helped is sitting in my garden in the morning and allowing the sun to let embody know its morning! So I guess my Gran was right ripping the curtains open each morning haha


  • Our family is definitely making more of an effort to spend more time outdoors, be more active and encourage our kids to move their bodies a lot more. Being healthy and active together makes it a more achievable goal when we are all on the same page trying to do better


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